Of perhaps some interest, a previously unknown (but to the natives) flightless rail, The Calayan Rail, has been discovered on a small island in the Philipines. The BBC version of the story is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3569160.stm But there are any number of other sources. Cheers, M.J.Murphy The shapes of things are dumb. -L. Wittgenstein